buzz lightyear
House Bee
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2009
- Messages
- 196
- Reaction score
- 2
- Location
- North Notts uk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 18
Monday night, 8pm on the way home from work picked up a swarm off a wall. The photos show they were in two clumps. Not a bad one all told. The home owner said they arrived Sunday PM. Must have been between the showers up here in Notts. Anyway, brushed them onto frames and into a nuc box, droped them off 10feet from the rape, job done, or so I thought! Poped up this afternoon, after 2 really cold nights and windy, cool days and they look almost history. Heads down in the 1 drawn frame I gave them.
The reason, has to be starvation, guess they had got cold on the wall, spent all there stores keeping warm until nothing left.
This is what I have done, but am guessing its too late, saw very little action, even afterwards:
Gave them a good spray with 1:1, gave them a fram of uncapped honey and put a feeded ontop.
In hind sight thats what I should have done at first, but you get grilled with the info that swarms have several days stores on board so dont feed for a few days, let them draw out the foundation.
Lesson learnt, always consider whats happening with the weather!
Don't want anyone else to make the same mistake as me.
The reason, has to be starvation, guess they had got cold on the wall, spent all there stores keeping warm until nothing left.
This is what I have done, but am guessing its too late, saw very little action, even afterwards:
Gave them a good spray with 1:1, gave them a fram of uncapped honey and put a feeded ontop.
In hind sight thats what I should have done at first, but you get grilled with the info that swarms have several days stores on board so dont feed for a few days, let them draw out the foundation.
Lesson learnt, always consider whats happening with the weather!
Don't want anyone else to make the same mistake as me.
